Innovation in PPE – multi-hazards early warning system in the Pacific

Bapon Fakhruddin, PhDTechnical Director, DRR and Climate Resilience

Co-Chair, Disaster Loss DATA, IRDR/ISC and CODATA/ISC

bfakhruddin@tonkintaylor.co.nz

Agenda

• Innovation in PPE- early warning system • Introduction to Tonkin + Taylor International• Project examples on PPE• Lessons learned • Way forward

Innovation in PPE

Five ways of private sector engagement in DRR

UNDRR, 2013

Economic- Benefits

• USD 1 investment, a return of USD 6 in benefits in the Pacific cyclone early warning system. Case study from Samoa (Fakhruddin, 2019)

• Experiment showed that every USD 1 invested, a return of USD 40.85 in benefits over a ten-year period may be realized. Case study from Bangladesh (World Bank, 2012).

• Willingness to pay improved EWS was estimated US$ 5.57 per year (Ahsan et al., 2020)

About Tonkin + Taylor International

About Tonkin + Taylor

• Founded in 1959• Proudly 100% employee

owned and operated• New Zealand’s leading

environmental and engineering consultancy, with offices in New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia

Over 900 staff in the T+T Group

Our services

• Geotechnical• Civil• Water • Environmental• Natural Hazard Resilience• Transport• Planning• Ecology• Transport• Hydrogeology• Waste and contaminated land• Data and digital solutions• Stakeholder engagement

We shape the interface between people and the environment - earth, water and air - using science and engineering.

Recent examples of client and peer recognition• Beaton Client Choice Award: Best consulting engineer in

Australasia in A$50-A$200M category (2019 and 2016)

• Resource Management Law Association Award (2018): NCTIR planning

• ACENZ Innovate Awards of Excellence (2018): Canterbury Earthquakes complex land damage (Gold)

• Civil Contractors NZ Excellence Awards (2018): Waitangi Wharf upgrade

• Beaton Client Choice Award: Best provider to construction and industry (2018)

• ACENZ Innovate Awards of Excellence (2017): TaumanaReserve (Gold and Community Award)

Project examples- Innovation in PPE

System Based Thinking- Total

Warning Concept(Multi-Hazards Impact Based

EWS): Fiji, Tonga, Samoa

• The innovative forecasting project is unique, for the first time in Pacific history bringing together the hydrological, oceanographic, and meteorological communities to create enhanced capability for accessible, understandable, and actionable warnings

Coastal Inundation Forecasting – Fiji

Canterbury Geotechnical Database

• The Canterbury Geotechnical Database (CGD) is an online database that Tonkin + Taylor developed to assist in the rebuild of Christchurch following the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES).

• It was designed as a searchable repository for sharing existing and new geotechnical information.

• The shared data concept is a unique and innovative feature of this database.

Loss modelling for TLA’s

NZ Government - The Kaikoura Earthquake Viewer

An interactive web map enabling EQC, Private insurance, response and recovery agencies, engineers and researcher users a tailored, secure view of insurer claims for our customers, alongside geospatial event data.

National Disaster Loss Database

UNOCHA - Cyclone Winston response viewer

World Food Program (Pacific) Pre-positioned Stock

World Food Program (Pacific) Pre-positioned Stock

Adventist Relief Agency - SAFE n REDI Phone APP

ESUPS – Welthungerhilfe – STOCKHOLM Prepositioned stock

Clifton to Tangoio 2120 Coastal Hazard Strategy

Lessons learned

Sectoral balance and maturity for hydrometvalue chain- NZ

Enhancing corporate social responsibility

Tax Benefit

DRR Index

Compliance

Government

Emergency

Fund

Private

Sector

Regional

Organization

National

Government

NGOs

Private

Agencies

Local

Association

Local

Bodies

Committee

Community

CEO/Board

Members

Corporate

Social

Responsibility

Objectives of CSR (Policy Document)• Eradicating Poverty

• Promoting Education

• Gender Equality

• Environmental

Sustainability

• Protecting National

Heritage

• Contribution to Prime

Minister’s Relief Fund

• Technology

Development Fund for

academia

International National

Local

Elected

Representative

Sensitization

Project Funds

Sustainable Development Goal

(SDG)

Strengthening physical infrastructure, human

resource and equipment inventories for disaster

response

Technology Development

Heritage Conservation

Mainstream of DRR through planning, policy development and implementation

Promoting Disaster Education

Training and Awareness Generation

GRAF Framework

Wat forward

Way forwards

• Good understanding of the benefits of reinforcing EWS by all stakeholders may serve as an incentive in investing and improving technologies.

• Economic assessment and scenario modelling are efficient tools for decision making in respect of investment and technology improvement for preparedness and actions during response.

• Economic assessment of EWS may help in quantifying pre-impact assessment to demonstrate to policy makers the economic benefit of disaster risk reduction.

• Cross-sectoral engagement can be vital for ensuring consistency in the skills and knowledge to carry out forecasting, monitoring and warnings.

• By collaboration and cooperation from local, national and global authorities, increased capabilities and capacities of the National and Hydrological services may lead to cost-effective DRR.

• To strengthen DRR capacity, it is crucial to involve the private sector as major actors in DRR.• The private sector can contribute enormously to DRR by developing business continuity plans,

innovating technology for EWS, and providing and sharing technical knowledge, skills, and resources in the field of disaster preparedness.